This article is an example of how one preservice teacher utilizes poetry as a platform to convey emotion over time. Through reflection- retrospective and prospective-the following poetic triptych examines the past, present, and possible selves of one future educator and her hopes of beginning a teaching career, amid amplified visibility of systemic racism afflicting the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN metroplex since the murder of George Floyd and subsequent racial strife in the community. Providing poetry as an avenue to discuss emotions of crises and stressors facing society-in teacher education and elsewhere-allows for in-depth self-reflexivity, essential to articulating emotional health and well-being.
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